Benjamin K. Keitz

This paper develops a platform for producing and engineering conductive cytochrome nanowires, achieving enhanced conductivity and enabling their use in sustainable electronic applications.

This paper uses bacteria to spatially control material assembly through quorum-sensing-mediated extracellular electron transfer, enabling patterned hydrogel formation.

The paper introduces a linear mixed effects model to statistically evaluate synthetic gene circuits, finding that the fixed effect β describes gate behavior and can be used to assess performance.

This study demonstrates that retron-mediated recombineering can be applied across multiple bacterial species, achieving high editing efficiencies in several phyla.

The paper develops a microdroplet emulsion system to enrich electroactive bacteria and identifies new electrogenic species from environmental samples.

This paper demonstrates how bacterial extracellular electron transfer can control synthetic polymer networks through genetic circuits, enabling dynamic and tunable material properties.

The paper demonstrates the use of transcriptional logic gates to control extracellular electron transfer in Shewanella oneidensis, achieving predictable EET flux modulation comparable to synthetic biology circuits.

This paper demonstrates genetic control of radical crosslinking in a hydrogel using extracellular electron transfer from Shewanella oneidensis, showing that bacterial genetics influence hydrogel properties like stiffness and crosslinking rate.

This study identifies two factors, MtrC and flavins, that influence Pd nanoparticle formation in Shewanella oneidensis through extracellular electron transfer.